Plistonicus was one of the 'classics' of Greek medicine in the so-called Dogmatic tradition. He was a pupil of Praxagoras but his home town is not recorded.
He appears to have written a work on Anatomy, which is several times mentioned by Galen. Galen generally refers to him in conjunction with Praxagoras and others of the Dogmatic persuasion.
Few fragments of Plistonicus, another pupil of Praxagoras, have survived. One of them indicates the persistence of the belief that the digestion of food was related to putrefaction.
Other views associated with him are that air enters the arteries not only from the heart but also from the whole body and that water is preferable to wine as an aid to digestion.
Plistonicus: Student of Praxagoras
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Plistonicus: Student of Praxagoras
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